3.4 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey my loves, I just want to tell you about a new podcast called The Just Enough Family. |
0:05.2 | It's the story about the rise and fall of the Steinbergs, who were once one of the richest |
0:09.2 | families in America. And this story is told through the eyes of the family's most charismatic |
0:13.8 | member, the fashion designer Liz Lang. Liz is the niece of the infamous corporate |
0:18.9 | rater, Saul Steinberg, who amassed a fortune before he was 30 years old, and he brought his entire |
0:24.7 | tight-knit Jewish family along for the ride. But the family fractures and loses everything after |
0:30.0 | Saul suffers a stroke, and his little brother Robert takes control of the family business. |
0:34.8 | Robert presides over the largest insurance company collapse in American history. The Just Enough |
0:40.0 | Family is hosted by New Yorker staff writer and best-selling author, R.E.L. Levy, who had unprecedented |
0:46.0 | access to the Steinbergs because of her very close friendship with Liz. Profound intimacy |
0:51.0 | over-the-top parties, staggering success, unexpected loss, and shocking betrayals are woven together |
0:57.2 | into a high-profile family therapy session. The conversations the Steinbergs have with R.E.L. |
1:02.3 | are startling, frank, and revealing, and will leave you dying to find out what happens next. |
1:07.2 | Here's a clip from The Just Enough Family. We're going to hear Liz and her little sister Jane |
1:12.0 | talk about how differently they experience their childhoods, and we're going to hear their parents |
1:16.2 | talk about how differently they thought of their daughters. Did she treat you and Liz differently? |
1:21.3 | I don't feel like much was like demanded of me. Everything was demanded of Liz. Everything. |
1:27.6 | You got any minus-wise in it in A. You know, and I feel like for me it was like, you got to see |
1:32.4 | in French. Well, it's not your thing. You don't want to go to Hebrew school. Don't go to |
1:37.1 | Hebrew school. Liz was like, you are going to Hebrew school. Well, Liz was very smart. She was a |
1:47.0 | voracious reader. I mean, she also had great grades, and she was always at the top of her class. |
1:54.0 | We never heard from Jane. They kind of had us in two buckets. My sister was the pretty one, |
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